Kendall Jenner “protest” Pepsi ad prompts hilarious backlash on Twitter. Here’s 21 of the best
Raise a glass to Pepsi and Kendall Jenner, who have just made the most ill-conceived advert ever made.
this is everything wrong with our culture in 30 seconds. may sound like an overreaction, but it's not. every frame of this ad is poisonous. pic.twitter.com/ouq3ZTMmFn
— jack wagner (@GrimmKardashian) April 4, 2017
The “Live for Now” campaign features Jenner walking out of a modelling shoot to join a protest march made up entirely of beautiful people.
She defuses some barely there tension with waiting cops by handing one of them, er, a can of Pepsi.
Nothing like co-opting the protest movement for profit, right?
this is everything wrong with our culture in 30 seconds. may sound like an overreaction, but it's not. every frame of this ad is poisonous. pic.twitter.com/ouq3ZTMmFn
— jack wagner (@GrimmKardashian) April 4, 2017
It got everyone talking on Twitter, but maybe not entirely in the way those Pepsi marketing folk will have been hoping. Here’s our pick of the best.
1.
"Now just wait one second officers.
I have a Pepsi." pic.twitter.com/NW0sddKOOI
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 5, 2017
2.
100% chance my Pepsi gets mistaken for a gun and I'm dead in that situation
— David Dennis Jr. (@DavidDTSS) April 4, 2017
3.
the last time pepsi left such a bad taste in my mouth was literally every time coke wasnt available
— jomny sun (@jonnysun) April 5, 2017
4.
Hell yeah I hope the militarized police force beats the shit out of me while enjoying a cool, refreshing Pepsi™ https://t.co/E7NgU9uTwS
— Dan Ozzi (@danozzi) April 4, 2017
5.
Normal ad, sell Pepsi. Terrible ad, we talk about it, sell more Pepsi. No escape from consumption. Buy tickets to my show to find out more.
— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) April 5, 2017
6.
Exclusive image of a man at a protest who didn't offer police a Pepsi pic.twitter.com/LrJXzc4FgT
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) April 4, 2017
7.
The Kendall Jenner Pepsi fiasco is a perfect example of what happens when there's no black people in the room when decisions are being made.
— Travon Free (@Travon) April 4, 2017
8.
AN AVERAGE DAY IN 2017:
*comes back from a lunch break drinking pepsi*
*whole office staring at me*
me: now what.— Jill Gutowitz (@jillboard) April 4, 2017
9.
Live bolder, live louder, live for now. @pepsi pic.twitter.com/BjtTEuRZYD
— Ethan Anderton (@Ethan_Anderton) April 4, 2017
10.
*kendall jenner hands cop a pepsi*
cop: im not racist anymore
— BRANDON WARDELL (@BRANDONWARDELL) April 4, 2017
11.
I AM SCREAMING pic.twitter.com/3aWFdvmz5j
— reggie (@1942bs) April 4, 2017
12.
@KrisJenner @KendallJenner @pepsi Protests are so in right now.
— juanona ryder (@juanrod) April 4, 2017
13.
The inoffensive generic protest signs in Pepsi's woke Kendall Jenner ad are hilarious. pic.twitter.com/9t2h6YxCZL
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) April 4, 2017
14.
Training Day (2001) pic.twitter.com/TAPjvdpx53
— jeff in real life (@thecultureofme) April 4, 2017
15.
"Kendall please! Give him a Pepsi!" pic.twitter.com/IntFNmCpTr
— Zito (@_Zeets) April 4, 2017
16.
theory: that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad is actually a Coke ad
— Chris Gayomali (@chrisgayomali) April 4, 2017
17.
Pepsi. pic.twitter.com/VCkWSXIvTh
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) April 4, 2017
18.
SECRETARY OF STATE REX TILLERSON STATEMENT ON NORTH KOREA:
"We have placed a single can of Pepsi at the North Korean border. Their move."
— Mark Lisanti (@marklisanti) April 5, 2017
19.
When you bout to get shot while being unarmed but you pull out the Pepsi right on time pic.twitter.com/sR3lASEg59
— kréyol boy (@Hiro_theKid) April 5, 2017
20.
Pepsi Exec: We need to boost sales. What are the youth into these days?
intern: protesting
Exec: good. we endorse it. but make it subtle pic.twitter.com/uiwxJWuVV2
— Discount Chris Pratt (@thelollcano) April 5, 2017
21.
Just seen the Pepsi ad – can't wait for the Dr Pepper Spray commercial
— Olaf Falafel (@OFalafel) April 4, 2017
Here’s the two-and-a-half minute director’s cut, if you can handle it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCEm21aTh5Q